A Commonplace Book

A 15th c. guide to pilgrimage travel details.

..that has website-trampling dinosaurs in it. Also wasps, meteor showers, attacking martians and the cursor-directed hand of a vengeful God...

A recent poll carried out in Iraq for ABC News, USA Today, the BBC and ARD German TV had one result that seems to have gotten less media co...

I believe that global warming is a real problem, and the result, even if non-catastrophic, of continuing the status quo will be billions of ...

In his blog, David Friedman writes : In earlier posts I argued that global warming is probably real, probably anthropogenic, and will probab...

How long were the heavy lances used by medieval men-at-arms on horseback in the 14th and 15th century? Contemporary artwork provides some ev...

An appendix in The Great War Bow by Mathew Strickland and Robert Hardy contains some interesting data on the impact energy of arrows at vari...

The design of the rear of this body armor is based on a misericord in Lincoln cathedral that shows a knight tumbling from his horse.

Accounts of deeds of arms in the 15th century frequently mention thrusting against visors. It is very difficult to achieve significant penet...

Many 15 th c. deeds of arms began with thrown lances, and optimal use of this weapon was a delicate set of compromises. To achieve maximum ...